Well, maybe November’s going down as the worst reading month. It’s been so busy that I can’t imagine how I’m going to finish out the year. Hopefully somewhere I will be able to fit in some extra reading and catch up. I have so many good books I’m anxious to get to before year end, but I have a feeling there will be a lot of overflow.

The only good news is I cut back on my buying and read more off my own shelves than I bought. I also did finish off a couple challenges so that is promising as well.

Books Read:

1. Double Cross by James Patterson (TBR)
2. Cross Country by James Patterson (TBR)
3. Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
4. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld (TBR)
5. Emma by Jane Austen (TBR)

Books Added:

1. Rainwater by Sandra Brown
2. A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
3. The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper

Challenges Finished: Romance Reading Challenge, Scott Westerfeld Mini-Challenge, Series Challenge Season 3, Decades Challenge, 999 Challenge
Challenges Joined: Thriller/Suspense Challenge 2010, TwentyTen Challenge, Support Your Local Library Challenge 2010, Flashback Challenge 2010, 100+ Challenge 2010, December Read-a-Thon, 2010 YA Reading Challenge, Colorful Reading Challenge, Nancy Drew Reading Challenge, Lord of the Rings Read-a-long, 2010 Awesome Author Challenge, RYOB 2010, 2010 A-Z Challenge, 2010 New Author Challenge, Monthly Mixer Mele, and 345 Challenge

A few more challenges down, into the extreme home stretch of the year, hopeful I can complete quite a few more before December 31. I’ve added more challenges than I ever expected for next year, too many to pass up. Hopefully I won’t get too stressed out and my reading will follow suit.

I plan to also for 2010 add in 30 Books to Movies Challenge, Genre Book Challenge, Book Blogger Recommendation, What’s in a Name 3, Chill Baby Chill, but the posts have not been created yet.

Current Challenges Ending 2010-2014

• Project Fill in the Gaps – 10/100 ends Apr 13, 2014
• Thriller/Suspense Challenge 2010 – 0/12 ends Dec 31, 2010
• TwentyTen Challenge – 0/20 ends Dec 31, 2010
• 2010 Support Your Local Library Challenge – 0/25 ends Dec 31, 2010
• 2010 100+ Reading Challenge – 0/100 ends Dec 31, 2010
• 2010 YA Reading Challenge – 0/12 ends Dec 31, 2010
• Nancy Drew Challenge – 0/56 ends Dec 31, 2010
• Colorful Reading Challenge – 0/9 ends Dec 31, 2010
• Awesome Author Challenge 2010 – 0/6 ends Dec 31, 2010
• TBR Challenge 2010 – 0/12 original 0/12 alternatives ends Dec 31, 2010
• Read Your Own Books 2010 – 0/75 ends Dec 31, 2010
• A-Z Challenge 2010 – 0/52 ends Dec 31, 2010
• New Author Challenge 2010 – 0/50 ends Dec 31, 2010
• Books to Read Before I Die Challenge – 0/20 ends Dec 31, 2010
• Stephanie Plum Reading Challenge – 2/15 ends Dec 31, 2010
• Monthly Mixer Mele – 5/74 ends Nov 2, 2010
• Countdown Challenge 2010 – 8/55 ends Oct 10, 2010
• James Patterson Challenge – 7/10 ends Aug 15, 2010
• Women’s Murder Club Challenge – 0/9 ends Aug 15, 2010
• 345 Challenge – 2/12 ends Aug 1, 2010
• Random Reading Challenge – 1/12 ends July 31, 2010
• Sookie Stackhouse Challenge – 3/10 ends June 30, 2010
• Lord of the Rings Readalong – 0/4 ends Apr 10, 2010
• The Four Month Challenge – 5/250 pts ends Feb 28, 2010
• What an Animal II Challenge – 4/6 ends Feb 28, 2010
• Everything Austen Challenge – 2/6 ends Jan 10, 2010

Current Challenges Ending in 2009

• Book Awards III Challenge – 1/5 ends December 31
• 999×2 Challenge – 42/81 ends December 31
• A Visit to Oz Challenge – 3/5 ends December 31
• 1% Well Read Challenge 2009 – 8/10 ends December 31
• Book vs Movie – 19/20 ends December 31
• What’s in a Name Challenge - 5/6 ends December 31
• 2009 TBR Challenge – 9/12 Alternatives 5/12 ends December 31
• 2009 YA Challenge – 7/12 ends December 31
• A-Z Challenge 2009 – 19/26 authors and 24/26 books ends December 31
• 100+ Book Challenge – 128/100 ends December 31
  
• Fall Into Reading 2009 – 8/15 ends December 20

Ongoing Challenges

• 1,001 Books You Must Read – 67/1001
• EW’s New Classic Books – 14/100
• TBR Stack (Personal) – 11/132
• Operation Actually Read the Bible – 0/12 months
• Stephen King/Richard Bachman Challenge – 2/–

It’s Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event to list the books completed last week, the books currently being reading, and the books to be finish this week.

I didn’t manage to finish any books the past week. I made another dent on Gone With the Wind and started another book for work. With so many in progress I have no idea when I will actually finish one.

Reading This Week

• Power Ambition Glory by Steve Forbes
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Well, this past month wasn’t as productive as I had hoped. I keep repeating the same list with no change. I hope that come next year I will be better about my reading and not fall into such a deep hole at the end of the year. I read 4 books off the past list, among others, completed many challenges, and am on a race to the finish line.

November List

• Double Cross (999 Challenge)
• Spook (Fall Into Reading)
• The Shack (Fall Into Reading)
• Secrets of the Morning (Fall Into Reading)
• Gone With the Wind (Chunkster)
• Cross Country (Series Challenge)
• House on the Stand (book club)
• Dangerous Days of Daniel X (Fall Into Reading)
• Pretties (Fall into Reading)
• either Emma or Poisonwood Bible (Fall Into Reading/Chunkster)

READING IN DECEMBER

• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson
• Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Spook by Mary Roach
• Secrets of the Morning by V.C. Andrews
• The Shack by William P. Young
• Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me by Louise Rennison
• Power, Ambition and Glory by Steve Forbes
• Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Tik Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Daniel X: Watch the Skies by James Patterson

I am hopeful that I will make great progress on this list over the next month. With a combination of young adult/children’s books, a read-a-thon, and headway on the chunksters, I will be finishing more this month than last month.

Hosted by Should be Reading

You tell us the answers to 3 questions:

What are you currently reading? Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson, and Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

What did you recently finish? Emma by Jane Austen

What do you think you’ll read next? The Shack by William P. Young, Spook by Mary Roach, and Secrets of the Morning by V.C. Andrews

Still working on the same books, except one. Hopefully I will get a lot of reading done this weekend and will be able to check a couple more off the list.

Hosted by: Book Chick City
Timeline: 01 Jan 2010 – 31 Dec 2010
Rules: To read TWELVE (12) thrillers in 2010

I didn’t participate in this in previous years but I’ve been reading a lot of suspense and thrillers lately so I thought this would be a great challenge to get some Stephen King in.

MY LIST:

Hosted By: Barts Bookshelf
January 1 – December 31, 2010

Rules:

• Read 2 books from each category, making a requirement of 20 books total.
• The categories are intended to be loose guidelines only, if you decide it fits, then it fits. (Apart from those marked **)
• Categories marked with ** have tighter rules, and these must be followed.
• Each book can only qualify for one category.
• Crossovers with other challenges are allowed.
• Books read from 01/01/2010 to 31/12/2010 are eligible.

This sounded fun so I thought I would take a shot.

1. Young Adult
2. Young Adult
3. TBR
4. TBR
5. Shiny & New
6. Shiny & New
7. Bad Blogger’s
8. Bad Blogger’s
9. Charity
10. Charity
11. New in 2010
12. New in 2010
13. Older Than Me
14. Older Than Me
15. Win! Win!
16. Win! Win!
17. Who are you again?
18. Who are you again?
19. Up to You!
20. Up to You!

I’m looking forward to picking out my books and getting started.

Hosted By: J. Kaye’s Book Blog
January 1 – December 31, 2010

I had fun participating in this challenge this past year, and I’m looking forward to it again. While I want to hit a higher challenge level, I really need to get books on my shelves read, so I’m once again limiting myself to the Mini Challenge – Read 25 Books.

MY LIST:

Booklust is hosting this fun blast to the past challenge.

The Flashback Challenge will run from January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010.

You can sign up for the following levels:
Bookworm – Up to three books
Scholar – Four to six books
Literati – Over six books

Within these levels, we have mini-challenges!  These are:

1. Re-read a favorite book from your childhood
2. Re-read a book assigned to you in high school
3. Re-read a book you loved as an adult

I’m going for the Scholar- 4 to 6 books (1 in each category unless I find more).

My LIST:

1. Childhood
2. Childhood
3. Highschool
4. Highschool
5. Adult
6. Adult